Clinton and Trump have fought their campaigns largely via the media, with the latter using TV platforms to make a number of statements and pledges that have come under fire from many USA voters and even fellow Republicans. Trump has dragged us through the mud for over a year before this sudden “pivot” toward not sounding like his presidency’s first 100 days would be devoted to rounding us up and making us disappear.
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For his part, Trump needs to do more than simply disqualify Clinton.
This idea of “touchback” was advanced by former Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican, in 2007, and as conservative writer Marc Thiessen pointed out in 2015, the New York Times deemed it “defensible”.
While Labour Day has traditionally been the kickoff to the fall campaign, both Clinton and Trump have been locked in an intense back-and-forth throughout the summer.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a television advertisement on Tuesday showing veterans and military families reacting to Donald Trump’s controversial comments about members of the armed services.
Katrina Pierson: What Mr. Trump says is that when it comes down to the end of his 10-point plan, he’ll make a decision.
“We don’t know who will be left, we don’t know where they live, who they are”, said campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
Clinton, the Democrat, is campaigning in Florida in search of an advantage in the nation’s largest swing state. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in the in primary and effectively sealed the Republican nomination – there has been talk of a Trump pivot in which he drops some of his brashness and reactionary rhetoric to convince wavering voters that he is temperamentally up to the task of being president.
Trump invited a small pool of reporters to join him on his plane as well, to talk about the economy. He said he doesn’t mind if the they accompany him – sometimes.
“I would be a fool to give anyone my unqualified support”, Butler said. “It doesn’t have to be all the time”.
And new criticism following Trump in Detroit this weekend.
After leaving Cleveland, Clinton took several questions from the traveling reporters covering the investigation into her use of private e-mail servers while she was secretary of state, including sending information later deemed classified; concerns about Russian interference in USA elections; and Trump’s national security qualifications. So far, Trump’s attempts to improve his paltry standing among voters who are suspicious of him has been halting and awkward. “The fact I couldn’t remember certain meetings, whether or not they had occurred, doesn’t in any way affect the commitment that I had and still have to the treatment of classified material”. While the party seems to have grown more favorable of Trump in recent weeks, this is still an organisation that remains divided over exactly where he could be taking them – Clinton, meanwhile, has sought to appeal to young voters via social media and current technology amid recent controversy over her email usage.
But in his speech last week, Trump said he would subject immigrants who are in the country illegally but haven’t been accused of crimes to deportation, too.
“I will work with the president whoever it is”, he said. And on Monday, he refused to rule out granting legal status to undocumented immigrants.
Immigration, though considered Trump’s hallmark issue after he rose to fame proclaiming that he would build a wall on the border with Mexico, is one of the issues on which Trump perhaps has fluctuated the most. Each of those groups is closely divided on which candidate would better handle securing the border.
The point is, your numbers may not be wrong but your weighting may be, your assumptions.
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He also scoffed at the notion Clinton explanations on her handling of sensitive documents in her e-mails.
